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Rouhani’s legacy of death and destruction Dr. Majid Rafizadeh Hassan Rouhani waving from his campaign tour bus, in 2013. (AP Photo) Short Url https://arab.news/4p4c2 In less than a month, Iran’s presidential election will be held, with a new president due to replace Hassan Rouhani on Aug. 3. It is now time to examine Rouhani’s legacy as his second term comes to an end. When Rouhani first ran for president in 2013, he projected himself as being very different to his predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the hard-liners. Rouhani pledged to improve the nation’s economy, people’s living...
Five thousand years of Iranian art goes on show at the V&A this month. A private collector who lent many of the treasures reveals what light they cast on the country
While not as well-known as that of the Achaemenid dynasty (550–330 BC), the second Persian empire ruled by the Sasanian dynasty (AD 224–642) is a pivotal but often overlooked period of ancient Western Asian art and archaeological history. Standing at the cusp of the ancient and medieval worlds, the Sasanian empire was the last great Iranian empire to rule over Western Asia before the coming of Islam, extending at its height in the seventh century from the Nile to the Oxus. Over the course of late antiquity, Sasanian art, architecture, and court culture created a new dominant aristocratic ...
Government to blame for Iran’s deepening recession Dr. Majid Rafizadeh Iranians queue at a money exchange in Ferdowsi square, Tehran, Iran, July 2, 2020. (Reuters) Short Url https://arab.news/4s6f8 When the Iranian authorities boast about Iran’s “resistance economy,” they are attempting to hide the fact that the government’s economic problems have deepened to a dangerous level. Iran’s official reserves dropped to a record low of $4 billion last year, down from $122.5 billion just two years earlier. This has partially contributed to the devaluation of the currency. Iran’s currenc...